Where was I... when I last blogged?

Oh yeah, it was LAST year, 2015.

Happy New Year to all my readers. Bonne et Heureuse Année! ¡Prospero Año Nuevo!

So... the inch of water in my basement laundry room?  I can thank my dufus landlord for that.  When he painted the first floor of my apartment back in November, he cleaned the paint brushes and rollers in the KITCHEN sink; not the laundry tub in the basement. Hence the nickname Dufus.

Consequently, the kitchen drain became plugged and backed up the drain pipe in the laundry room, spewing guck all over the floor.  I had already complained to the superintendent before Christmas vacation, that there was water on the laundry room floor, water that had NO business being there.  What did he do? Taped up these ancient hoses and told me that would probably fix the problem.

The morning after my arrival back home, my apartment had more men coming in and out of it, than Grand Central station !  Between the super, the cable guy, my neighbour putting up my drapes (God bless him!)  the clean-up guy... it all got fixed.  Thank goodness it WASN'T a question of sewer backup. I still don't know what those black specks are all over the floor, that I have yet to clean up.

In conclusion, in an attempt to get that EVIL ELF off my shelf, (he who parked himself there upon my return from The Camino), I have made a New Year's Resolution.  That resolution was to start attending mass again, and which I have done.  I need to get the Big Guy upstairs on my side. :)

So far.... so good.  Ten days into the new year, things are looking up!